Optical Coherence Tomography in Alzheimer’s Disease: A Meta-Analysis

Gianluca Coppola, Antonio Di Renzo, Lucia Ziccardi, Francesco Martelli, Antonello Fadda, Gianluca Manni, Piero Barboni, Francesco Pierelli, Alfredo A Sadun and Vincenzo Parisi

PLOS ONE, 2015, vol. 10, issue 8, 1-14

Abstract: Background: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder, which is likely to start as mild cognitive impairment (MCI) several years before the its full-blown clinical manifestation. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has been used to detect a loss in peripapillary retina nerve fiber layer (RNFL) and a reduction in macular thickness and volume of people affected by MCI or AD. Here, we performed an aggregate meta-analysis combining results from different studies. Methods and Findings: Data sources were case-control studies published between January 2001 and August 2014 (identified through PubMed and Google Scholar databases) that examined the RNFL thickness by means of OCT in AD and MCI patients compared with cognitively healthy controls. Results: 11 studies were identified, including 380 patients with AD, 68 with MCI and 293 healthy controls (HC). The studies suggest that the mean RNFL thickness is reduced in MCI (weighted mean differences in μm, WMD = -13.39, 95% CI: -17.34 to -9.45, p = 0.031) and, even more so, in AD (WMD = -15.95, 95% CI: -21.65 to -10.21, p

Date: 2015
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